The Attorney General’s Office obtained the seizure of the bank accounts of those sentenced in the 2012-2016 Bribery Case, among them are Rafael Correa and Jorge Glas.
The State Attorney General’s Office reported today, Friday, November 12, 2021, of the seizure of the accounts of those sentenced in the case of corruption Bribes 2012-2016, among which are the former president Rafael Correa and the former vice president, Jorge Glas.
In a message on social networks, he notified that “once this action has been carried out”, he will now request “the Execution Court to order the seizure of the assets registered in the name of the convicted persons”, referring to the «movable goodsbe real estate ».
And in a statement he explains that the decision was adopted by the judges Walter Macías, Marco Rodríguez and Luis Rojas.
⭕️ #Important| #CaseBribes 2012-2016: Prosecutor’s Office obtained the seizure of the bank accounts of those sentenced.
Once this action is carried out, the #PGE will request the Execution Court to order the seizure of the assets registered in the name of the convicted persons. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/P5LDzM3BR4– Ecuador Attorney’s Office (@PGEcuador) November 12, 2021
Jail and economic sentence
If Bribes 2012-2016, an irregular financing scheme of the Alianza País movement from the highest levels of the Correa’s presidency, an accusation that he categorically denies, a score of people were sentenced in 2020 for different crimes, including Correa and Glas for bribery.
The Criminal Court of the National Court of Justice (CNJ) imposed an eight-year prison sentence on the mediated authors and co-authors, and compensation to the State for a global value of $ 14.7 million, distributed to different degrees among those sentenced, according to their degree of participation in the crime: perpetrators or co-perpetrators.
It is a money that must reach the national coffers, although it is not clear if in the seized accounts there is availability of the sums demanded by the Attorney as comprehensive reparation for damages caused to the State.
Three of the twenty defendants, all of them businessmen, paid their reparations voluntarily, while the others have not done so so far.
Belgium, Correa’s destiny
The ex-president strap He has resided in Belgium since he left power in 2017 in the hands of his successor Lenín Moreno, and at least two attempts through petitions to obtain his repatriation for judicial purposes have been unsuccessful.
The former president maintains that this process, as well as other investigations opened against him since then, are part of a political persecution against him and his closest collaborators.
For its part, Glas he is in prison since 2017 for another case of corruption related to the plot Odebrecht.
To recover the money from this type of process, the Attorney General’s Office created in 2020 a Asset Recovery Unit, with the objective, states the press release, of “exercising State sponsorship in the processes of execution of sentences handed down in criminal cases for corruption involving former public servants.”
